For Charlotte Linlin, eating was sometimes even more important than the title of Pirate King.
So, after Sanji Meow spoke up, Big Mom quickly abandoned the idea of making trouble for her children. Her gloomy expression instantly turned to joy and anticipation, and she summoned Streusen, the head chef of the Big Mom Pirates, to take Sanji Meow to the kitchen to make the almond petit fours she currently wanted to eat.
Beside her, Katakuri let out a great sigh of relief.
Although he had already foreseen all of this through Observation Haki, he knew his mother's temperament well and still worried about his younger siblings until everything was settled.
He also took advantage of Big Mom's attention shifting to food to quickly direct the nearby Homies to secretly carry away the unconscious members of the Charlotte Family, lest Big Mom notice them again later because of something else.
Their respective allegiances aside, Katakuri really was an excellent older brother.
At the moment, however, Xie Wen was not paying much attention to Katakuri. Instead, he looked with some curiosity at the short old man before him, who was even shorter than some of the Palicoes...
As Charlotte Linlin's guide, and one of only two people in the original story who had witnessed the truth behind Mother Carmel's disappearance all those years ago, Streusen had not "used" the still-immature Charlotte Linlin, but had instead chosen to nurture and support her.
In that respect, he was very similar to Trebol, who had given the String-String Fruit to the Heavenly Yaksha.
Was it because they knew their own abilities weren't enough to rule these seas, so they chose to invest in the future?
After turning it over in his mind, Xie Wen could only come up with that one possibility...
Although their chosen